Honor Show Chow Poultry Management June 29 2016

Honor® Show Chow® Poultry Management June 29, 2016

Producing Broilers & Turkeys For Show By: Keith Staggs Show Poultry Ambassador

Outline • Housing / Equipment • Getting Started • Pre-Brood Set-Up • Feed Type & Feeding Schedules • Culling Birds & Pen Selection

Housing Should Be • Totally enclosed • Solid wall • Open sided (Chicken wire w/ Plastic Curtains) • Flooring - concrete or wood • Minimize access to outside predators

Solid Wall - Forced Air Ventilation

Open Sided - Natural Ventilation

House Lighting • 40 Watt light bulbs – No more / No less • Incandescent or Fluorescent lights only • House lighting should be evenly distributed • Eliminate Shadows / Dark Spots

Incandescent or Fluorescent

Housing - Floor Space • Start the birds in the area in which they will grow and live • Do not reduce floor space as bird numbers decrease: • Culling • Mortality

Floor Space - Broilers • 2 ft. 2 per chick at one day of age • Culling allows increase in square footage • 2 ft. 2 = 15 ft. 2 per bird at 4 Weeks of age

Floor Space - Turkeys • Flock = 2 ft. 2 1 Day to 4 Weeks • Flock = 6 ft. 2 4 to 8 Weeks • Hens = 10 ft. 2 8 Weeks to Show • Toms = 15 ft. 2 8 Weeks to Show

Two Feet Square

Floor Space

Floor Space

Industry Perspective

Feed & Water Equipment

Equipment - Feeder & Water • Minimum Recommendations: • 25 birds per feeder • 15 birds per waterer • Supplemental feeders & waterers for brood • Clean waterers daily

Feeder Space is Crucial

Supplemental Feed / Water

Feeder Space

Equipment - Heating Lamps • Use the following per 25 Birds • 2 - 125 Watt • 1 - 250 Watt Note: This is a Minimum Requirement • Red Livestock / Pet Lamps • Clear lamps create health issues • Create brood temperature first week

Bird Temperature Requirements • Week 1 900 F (Brood Temp = Floor temp) 12” measured from center of light • Week 2 800 F (Room Temp) • Week 3 750 F (Room Temp) • Week 4 700 F (Room Temp) • Week 5 680 F (Room Temp) NOTE: Room Temp is measured 6” above bird level

Temperature Control / Regulation

Temperature Control / Regulation

Adequate Temperature Control

Adequate Temperature Control

Inadequate Temperature Control

Use Thermometers Correctly

Incorrect Thermometer Use

Pasted Vents – Excess Heat Exposure

What Housing IS IS NOT

What Housing IS IS NOT

What Housing IS IS NOT

Set-Up & Pre-Brood • Set-up house 1 week prior to hatch • Heat house 3 days prior to hatch • Record temps 1 day prior to hatch • Add feed and water 1 hour prior to receipt of chicks / poults • Water temp. = 800 F for the first week

Pre-Brood

Pre-Heat the House

Feed Type & Feeding • Honor® Show Chow® Branded Products • Feed Continually • Freshen Feed Daily • Change Feed Out Every Third Day • Raise feeders & Waterers to be even with the birds back throughout the grow-out

Avoid This!!

Encourage This!!

Broiler Feeding Schedule Week HSC Poultry Prestarter HSC Poultry Starter HSC Poultry Grow-Fin 1 100% / 20 lbs - - 2 50% / 10 lbs - 3 12. 5% / 2. 5 lbs 87. 5% / 17. 5 lbs - 4 - 75% / 15 lbs 25% / 5 lbs 5 - 37. 5% / 7. 5 lbs 62. 5% / 12. 5 lbs 6+ - - 100% / 20 lbs • If using High Octane® Power Fuel® and Champion Drive™ • Start supplementing at Week 2 • Include each at 8 oz per 20 lbs of feed

Turkey Feeding Schedule Week HSC Poultry Prestarter HSC Poultry Starter HSC Poultry Grow-Fin 1 -4 100% / 20 lbs - - 5 -6 70% / 14 lbs 30% / 6 lbs - 7 -8 50% / 10 lbs - 9 -10 30% / 6 lbs 70% / 14 lbs - 11 -14 - 100% / 20 lbs - 15 - 80% / 16 lbs 20% / 4 lbs 16 - 20% / 4 lbs 80% / 16 lbs 17+ - - 100% / 20 lbs • If using High Octane® Power Fuel® and Champion Drive™ • Start supplementing at Week 5 • Include each supplement at 8 oz per 20 lbs of feed

Finish Feeding - If you choose to do so • Rule # 1 – KEEP IT SIMPLE!!! • Keep it fresh! • Do not cook it! • Do not add whole or cracked grains • Feed as supplement – 15 -20 min. /feeding • Spoon in on top of feed in feeders • If droppings become loose – STOP!!! NOTE: This does not win the Show!

Vitamins & Electrolytes Antibiotics • They have a specific purpose • V & E – Hydration of birds & vitamin Supplement • Antibiotics – treat bacterial infection • If the condition noted above is not present – these products are not needed • Preventative measure for these products are no benefit to the bird!

Physical Stimulation • Several times per day • Adjust your schedule • No strenuous activity • Walk to feed and water – No Laps around house!! • Minimize Stress • Too much excitability causes mortality

House Clean-outs • No Defined Schedule • Bird density determines clean-out frequency • Monitor Ammonia and Air Quality • If you smell Ammonia upon entering house – MAKE ADJUSTMENTS • Maintain Dry Litter • Wet litter encourages Ammonia, Bugs, Bacteria, etc.

Culling & Pen Selection

Culling Why? • Remove Unthrifty Birds • Reduce Competition of Flock • Separate Male / Female (sexed show) • Reduce Feed Expense • Create Additional Floor Space

Culling How? • Look for same qualities/characteristics that you would when selecting the pen for show! • Length of Breast • Width of Breast • Depth of Body • Taper of Breast Muscle

Length & Width

Depth & Taper

Width of Breast

Depth of Body

Purina’s Winning Philosophy BUILDING BETTER ANIMALS We know the best way to help you realize your dreams starts with incorporating the Checkerboard’s Winning Philosophy: Tap into the critical cells of a successful Honor® Show Chow® program and the world of fun excitement and confident exhibitors. By plugging into this proven tradition, we believe your chances of reaching the winner’s circle exponentially increase. For a winning experience and quality family time, it all starts and ends with a Winning Philosophy.

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Birds that look like this…. . Produce

THE WINNING RESULTS

Thank You! Questions? Texagg 94@live. com